Dongning City, Fengzhou Military Camp.

Looking at Ye Mingsheng and his party walking towards him, Yuan Song, who was ashamed, knelt down on one knee and reported to Ye Mingsheng:

"General Yuan Song is here to see you, Your Excellency. In this battle, General Yuan Song made a mistake and fell into a tight siege by the enemy. This resulted in heavy casualties for our army and almost wiped out the entire army. Please punish me for the death penalty!"

Looking at Yuan Song who was asking for forgiveness, Ye Mingsheng smiled and personally helped Yuan Song up and said:

"General, please rise. This battle is not a crime of war. General, please do not blame yourself. If the general had not always stood firm in the camp and contained the main force of the enemy, how could I have led his troops to reach Dongning City so easily..."

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What Ye Mingsheng said was sincere. In the situation where the main force of the Zhenwu Army was besieged and suddenly attacked due to intelligence errors, Yuan Song had done a good enough job. If it were other Fengzhou Army generals, what would he do?

It was impossible to persevere under these circumstances, so it was difficult for Ye Mingsheng to ask for more.

The most important thing is that Ye Mingsheng's informant in Yuan Song's department reported that when the Zhenwu Army's offensive was at its most intense, Wang Muzhi had sent Yuan Song's colleagues in the Longxiang Army to persuade him to surrender, but Yuan Song didn't even see him.

Seeing this person, he immediately put on a posture of fighting to the end, so Ye Mingsheng felt very pleased with Yuan Song's loyalty.

Under Ye Mingsheng's comfort, the ashamed Yuan Song's face also looked better, and the generals following him secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Ye Mingsheng's kind words to Yuan Song.

Before Ye Mingsheng, they were all worried.

Although they defended this battle, they suffered heavy casualties after all. They didn't know whether Ye Mingsheng would be furious, so everyone was very worried. But now Ye Mingsheng's comfort to Yuan Song is undoubtedly a clear message.

political signal, telling everyone that he is not prepared to pursue accountability...

After appeasing Yuan Song, Ye Mingsheng once again visited the generals under his command. After doing this, Ye Mingsheng took his troops and horses and entered Dongning City in a mighty manner. The political and economic affairs of Liaoyang Province

center.

At this time, the head of the Yun family, Yun Guanjing, surrendered at the city gate, as well as his uncle Yun Hanjie, who had previously sent a mission to the Fengzhou Army, as well as Gongsun Huan, the former general of the Zhenwu Army, Zhu Lin, Fang Dawei and others.

Reputable people, after learning that Ye Mingsheng was coming to the city today, they all gathered at the city gate to welcome Ye Mingsheng's arrival.

Although he was very disgusted with these fallen grasshoppers, for the sake of overall stability, Ye Mingsheng could only suppress the disgust in his heart, talk to them with a cheerful face, and spend nearly a stick of incense before speaking.

Complete these face-saving efforts.

As soon as they entered the city, soldiers came to Ye Mingsheng and reported:

"Sir, the rebel leader Chen Dechang committed suicide by drinking poisonous wine..."

After hearing the news, Ye Mingsheng, who was supposed to go directly to his office, pondered for a while and decided to turn around and take a look at Chen Dechang's residence.

Since they decided to join Ye Mingsheng, the Yun family, the Gongsun family and several Zhenwu Army generals have all rushed to flatter Ye Mingsheng, and the gifts they are willing to give include Ye Mingsheng, the former "old leader" Chen Dechang

head!

But it's a pity that Chen Dechang, an old man who was so angry that he was basically paralyzed in bed, didn't care at all. If you want to send Wang Muzhi's head, Ye Mingsheng would be quite happy. As for Chen Dechang, he is now

If that's the case, what's the point of Ye Mingsheng asking for his head?

Therefore, after Ye Mingsheng made it clear that he was not interested, these people were no longer interested in Chen Dechang. After Wang Muzhi ran away and they joined forces to control Dongning City, they did not harm Chen Dechang's personal safety, but only took advantage of it.

After leaving the Chen Mansion, I prepared to hand Chen Dechang over to Ye Mingsheng to handle...

Unexpectedly, on the day when Ye Mingsheng entered the city, Chen Dechang committed suicide by taking poison. Because he was worried that there were still remnants of the Zhenwu Army in the Chen Mansion, after Ye Mingsheng arrived at the Chen Mansion, his captain Ye Kui did not let Ye Mingsheng go in directly.

Instead, they arranged for the personal guards to enter first. After confirming that there was no danger in the mansion, Ye Mingsheng entered the mansion under the escort of the personal soldiers.

Looking at the haggard Chen Dechang on the bed in front of him with his eyes closed tightly, Ye Mingsheng didn't know why, but in front of his eyes, when he was in Luo'an, when he went to Guangshun Hou to meet Chen Dechang for the first time, Chen Dechang's face was red and full of vitality.

At that time, even though he, Ye, was conceited and ambitious, he never expected that things would reach this point.

After being silent for a while, Ye Mingsheng turned to look at the shivering maid beside him and asked:

"Master Chen, did you tell me anything when you left?"

Listening to Ye Mingsheng's words, the little maid who looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old became emotional, but quickly shook her head.

Seeing her like this, Ye Mingsheng smiled and said:

"But it doesn't matter, I won't blame you!"

As if being infected by Ye Mingsheng's smile, the little maid mustered up the courage to whisper:

"Master Chen said he is waiting for you under the underworld..."

Ye Mingsheng couldn't help but smile and shake his head after hearing this. It seemed that his "old leader" hated him so much that he never forgot about him before he died.

Although Ye Mingsheng didn't care much about Chen Dechang's remarks, the Zhenwu Army general Zhu Lin who followed him took the initiative to flatter him, pretending to be Ye Mingsheng and said angrily:

"Chen Dechang, an old thief who helped the tyrants and oppressed the people, committed suicide out of fear of his crime. He did not forget to curse Mr. Ye, and asked Mr. Ye to order the old dog to be cut into thousands of pieces and exposed in the wilderness to set the record straight!"

When Ye Mingsheng heard this, he couldn't help but glance at Zhu Lin. Under Ye Mingsheng's gaze, Zhu Lin, who was old enough to be Ye Mingsheng's father, quickly groveled and looked submissive.

Seeing this, Ye Mingsheng smiled and said:

"No need to be like this. Let the past of Chen Dechang's death go away with the wind. Send an order to select a good longevity material to bury Chen Dechang in a grand manner!"

After hearing Ye Mingsheng's words, Zhu Lin, who had suggested that Ye Mingsheng expose Chen Dechang's body in the wilderness a second ago, quickly changed his words and said:

"Master Ye's generosity is truly admired by his subordinates. Under your rule, the people of Liaoyang will live and work in peace and harmony..."

To be honest, Ye Mingsheng didn't like Zhu Lin's flattery, and was even a little disgusted. In order to clear his ears, Ye Mingsheng persuaded him nicely before he arranged for him to go out. Looking at Zhu Lin's leaving figure, Ye Mingsheng

There was a look of disdain in Ming Sheng's eyes.

Although Zhu Lin has a bad character, he is indeed a good dog. As long as you give him a bone, he will bite people for you.

Such a thing, Ye Mingsheng will definitely use it next!

"Sir, Chen Dechang, this old guy is old-hearted and has found several concubines at his old age. What do you think of dealing with these people?" Ye Kui reported to Ye Mingsheng:

When Ye Mingsheng heard this, he didn't think much about it, and immediately gave instructions:

"If you are willing, reward the meritorious soldiers; if you are not willing, just give them some money and send them back home!"

"I understand!" Ye Kui nodded and replied:

After dealing with Chen Dechang's affairs, Ye Mingsheng finally arrived at his office in Dongning Mansion. Although Wang Muzhi fled to Sanyuan County with some remnants of the Zhenwu Army, the Zhenwu Army had not been completely wiped out, but at the moment no one could

Knowing that the Zhenwu Army is now a thing of the past and a street rat, Ye Mingsheng of the Fengzhou Army is the future ruler of Liaoyang...

Therefore, in order to better rule the entire Liaoyang and better use troops within the pass, Ye Mingsheng needs to move his headquarters to where to run Dongning Mansion!

Although Ye Mingsheng worked hard in Fengzhou, Ye Mingsheng's former base, and had great potential for development, unfortunately, that place was a borderland after all, directly adjacent to the Songmo Grassland and a short distance from the Shiwei, Khitan, and Luobei people.

Everyone is very close. If you choose to use that place as your headquarters, there will be no strategic buffer and it will be very dangerous for you to be attacked by aliens.

Of course, there are many disadvantages to choosing Dongning as the headquarters. After all, the Cui family, Yun family, Gongsun family and other gentry and bureaucratic forces in Dongning Mansion have already taken deep roots.

The roots are intertwined, and one hair can affect the whole body.

To be honest, Ye Mingsheng also has some scruples about this, but he has determined to launch fundamental reforms to change the poverty situation in Liaoyang area since ancient times, and the world situation does not give Ye Mingsheng time to slowly carry out reforms, so Ye Mingsheng

Mingsheng can only choose to carry out drastic reforms, and cannot adopt a slow-knife method of carving flesh.

Therefore, in order to achieve his goal more quickly, Ye Mingsheng needs to make some waves in the deep water area of ​​Dongning Mansion...

Ye Mingsheng's official residence did not choose to be in the traditional central area of ​​Dongning City, but in the northeast corner of the city. The reason why Ye Mingsheng did this was purely to prepare for a rainy day. Considering the reforms he was preparing for next, once the local faction

If the forces cannot accept it, they will inevitably use weapons to resist.

And if the official residence is placed in the core area, then it will be surrounded by the residences of local bureaucrats and generals. They all hide a lot of private soldiers in the courtyard! Once they suddenly attack, Ye Mingsheng's official residence will be

It's hard to hold on to.

Therefore, for the sake of safety, Ye Mingsheng chose the northeast corner, which is relatively free. In addition to Ye Mingsheng's own residence, it can also accommodate some residences such as the Fengzhou Army Staff Headquarters and various generals. Under the joint protection of these people,

Once something unexpected happens, the mansion is relatively safe.

Upon entering the mansion, Ye Mingsheng immediately entered working mode and asked Qi Dechao who was following him:

"Have the casualties on Yuan Song's side been reported?"

Upon hearing Ye Mingsheng's inquiry, Qi Dechao immediately reported:

"I would like to inform you, sir, the casualties on Yuan Song's side have just been reported. In this battle, General Yuan's command lost 5,081 people dead and 6,130 injured. The grenade reserve has been exhausted, and the six equipped

All red-coat cannons were damaged, and firearms such as the Weiyuan gun and the Polu gun were also damaged by more than half..."

"Stop reading it!" After hearing these numbers, Ye Mingsheng held his head and waved his hand and said:

Although he had a premonition that Yuan Song's troops would suffer heavy losses, Ye Mingsheng could not help but feel frightened when he heard these figures. You must know that Yuan Song's men only had a total of more than 20,000 people, and now the total casualties were more than half.

.

The casualties in this battle were almost the same as those of the previous Fengzhou Army, whether it was against the Khitans, the Posuo Mansion to suppress the bandits, or the later battles with the Liaoyang Army and the Zhenwu Army. Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng couldn't help but wonder.

He sighed slightly.

This is really because you don’t know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive. As Ye Mingsheng has been recruiting troops and accelerating expansion, the financial situation of the newly emerged Fengzhou Army is not very good. The fact that the war can continue to this point is largely due to Cui

The family is transfusing blood behind their backs.

At present, the reward for winning the Liaoyang soldiers is a large sum of money, and now the pension for these ten thousand people and the aftermath expenses are a large amount of expenses...

In this regard, Ye Mingsheng secretly strengthened his determination to reform. If there was no reform, the Fengzhou Army's finances would not be fundamentally improved, and Liaoyang would never be able to change its backward and poor situation.

However, reform is reform. After all, we have to eat one bite at a time, and the road is taken step by step. The most important thing right now is naturally to annihilate Wang Muzhi and the remnants of the Zhenwu Army. Once they are killed, no one in the entire Liaoyang area will dare to follow them.

With the military force facing him head-on, and having a thorough grasp of the barrel of a gun, he can better implement reforms.

"Where are Wang Muzhi and the others?" Ye Mingsheng rubbed his temples and asked Qi Dechao:

Looking at Ye Mingsheng's appearance, the clever Qi Dechao made a cup of hot tea for Ye Mingsheng and handed it to the table while reporting the report:

"According to the intelligence sent by Director Wang previously, Wang Muzhi and the others have arrived in Sanyuan County. In addition, since Wang Muzhi began to run away, the morale of the Zhenwu Army has become unstable. Deserters have appeared one after another. Director Wang predicts that now Wang Muzhi will

Mu Zhi has no more than 30,000 Zhenwu soldiers and horses at his disposal. It is expected that their next step will be to attack Yutai County and cross the Bohai Sea to Qingyan through Yutai County."

A sneer appeared at the corner of Ye Mingsheng Wenyan's mouth. Wang Muzhi, this bitch, had tricked more than 10,000 of his troops, so he wanted to run away because he wanted to be really beautiful...

"I sent an order to Lin Huaiwu to stay and garrison Dongning Mansion. Guo Zhiping took Zhu Lin, Fang Dawei and the others to rush to Sanyuan County. I must annihilate Wang Mu's tribe, Zhu Lin, Fang Dawei and the others. Since they want to

I have a place in the Fengzhou Army, so you must give me a certificate to show off your skills!" Ye Mingsheng said with a sneer:

Although Zhu Lin and Fang Dawei have surrendered to these people now and are the generals of the Fengzhou Army, they are different from Yuan Song and Lin Huaiwu. They are more like warlords, and the soldiers and horses under them are also their private armies.
Chapter completed!